Site remediation |
(Environmental Engineering) The process of cleaning up a hazardous waste disposal site that has either been abandoned or that those responsible either refuse to cleanup or are financially unable to cleanup. |
Siting |
(Environmental Engineering) Obtaining government (federal, state, and local) permission to construct an environmental processing, treatment, or disposal facility at a given site. |
Softening |
(Environmental Engineering) The removal of divalent cations by precipitation or ion exchange. |
Source reduction |
(Environmental Engineering) The elimination or reduction of the waste at the source by modification of the actual process which produces the waste. |
Species |
(Environmental Engineering) In chemistry, an ion or molecule in solution. |
Sterilization |
(Environmental Engineering) The destruction or inactivation of all microorganisms. See Disinfection. |
Stratosphere |
(Environmental Engineering) The atmosphere from approximately 12 km to 70 km. The temperature of the atmosphere increases in this region.Strong acid |
Substrate level phosphorylation |
(Environmental Engineering) The synthesis of the energy storage compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) using organic substrates without molecular oxygen. |
Surface water |
(Environmental Engineering) Water which is contained in lakes, rivers, and oceans. |
Suspended growth reactor |
(Environmental Engineering) A reactor in which the microorganisms are suspended in the wastewater. Examples of suspended growth reactors are activated sludge reactors and anaerobic digesters. See attached growth reactor. |